Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   On this day in history dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68   

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day in the year 1968.   

Jun 05   US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles on this day in history.   

Jun 06   Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies in the year 1968.   

Jun 06   Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles on this day in history.   

Jun 07   In the year 1968 dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60   

Jun 07   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination   

Jun 08   On this day in history gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport in the year 1968.   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted on this day in history.   

Jun 08   On this day in history rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 in the year 1968.   

Jun 12   On this day in history fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral in the year 1968.   

Jun 15   Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.   

Jun 19   50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign on this day in history.   

Jun 20   On this day in history jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds   

Jun 21   Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91 in the year 1968.   

Jun 21   In the year 1968 supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns   

Jun 24   Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner on this day in history.   

Jun 24   Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion in the year 1968.   

Jun 24   Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title on this day in history.   

Jun 24   Resurrection City closed on this day in history.   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 in the year 1968.   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.   

Jun 27   Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague in the year 1968.   

Jun 27   On this day in history norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies   

Jun 28   In the year 1968 daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers   

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jun 30   On this day in history gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 in the year 1968.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   Kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies   

Jan 04   On this day in history joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   In the year 1968 death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)   

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.   

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)